BEYONCE is facing a lawsuit after allegedly copying a filmmaker's ideas for her new album's trailer.
He claimed that there were a whopping nine visual similarities between his film and the trailer, including "graffiti and persons with heads down, red persons with eyes obscured and title card screens."
The New Yorker said that he was approached to direct a video by MS MR, another artists signed to Columbia Recording, which is owned by the Sony Music group that Beyonce is signed with.
He believes that the links he sent to Palinoia must have made passed onto the team responsible for Beyonce, before being imitated.
"The number of aesthetic decisons included in Plaintiff's Palinoia work that are parroted in Defendants' Lemonade trailer demonstrates that the Lemonade trailer is substantially similar to the Palinoia work," the lawsuit stated.
"The misappropriated content includes both the particular elements that the Plaintiff chose to comprise the Palinoia Work and the coordination and arrangement of those particular elements," it continued.
Beyonce is building up quite the track record of these sorts of accusations.
Last year she was forced to deny stealing song XO from a backing singer amid an eye-watering $7 million lawsuit.
As if Lemonade didn't have enough controversy going for it – who can forget the infidelity storm that some of her lyrics whipped up.
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